Mission: DeFi

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi & Degen news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more.

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more.

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.

# Mission DeFi - B.Protocol

## Guest Info

Name of Guest: Eitan Katchka

Name of Project: B.Protocol

Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/EKatchka

Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/Bprotocoleth

Project URL: https://bprotocol.org  

Project/Guest Description: B.Protocol is lead by a highly experienced and big brain team that is working to make lending liquidations work better by pooling liquidation funds for lending protocols across DeFi. It is a powerful platform and model where everybody wins and I expect that B.Protocol will end up being a big player in the space. 

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more.

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more.

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more.

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.

Eric Ervin has a successful Crypto hedge fund and a background creating and selling ETFs, but his newest endeavors to bring Financial Advisors into crypto is a massive opportunity for the entire space with a group of people managing over $100 trillion. It is a big play and after years of work, the platform is integrated with tradfi systems and advisors are joining. 

They are now taking it to the next level to offer DeFi along with custody solutions to advisors. 

Name of Guest: Eric Ervin

Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/eervin1

Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/Blockforcecap

https://twitter.com/OnrampInvest

Project URL:

https://defi.blockforcecapital.com/

https://blockforcecapital.com/

https://www.onrampinvest.com/

Left Morgan Stanley in 2012 to build his own company. 

Created a dividends swap market for S&P 500 based entirely on dividend value and not price. 

Called it regulatory Tetris

Regulators couldn’t agree how to regulate. 

He convinced them to see it as an ETF and got that product approved after 2.5 years. 

Gave him an understanding of the process, but learned that the ETF market wasn’t right market for a product like that. 

Then he started realizing that crypto and blockchain were perfect for what he was trying to do. 

Start a quant hedge fund using their own money and others to actually make money. Started with their money first in order to learn more and be in more. 

Was for people not going to manage it themselves.

Started Blockforce capital in 2016 with his own money and then in 2019 took on outside money.

Relates how they invested and managed money. Not a portfolio building fund. More about actively trading and leveraging all kinds of metrics in the market.

Truly wanted to offer a hedge fund like return rather than just a portfolio strategy.

What it was like when he made the move out of trade into crypto in 2016. They did it all in stealth mode. “How can we get ourselves out of the ETF business as fast as possible”. 

Why he thinks the idea of a Bitcoin ETF is as silly as an IBM ETF and is completely unnecessary when direct access or via a fund is superior.

Access for all is his mantra. 

ETF industry takes a couple of billion to break even and then in a hedge fund about $30 million. 

Discussed how they tried to do an acquisition to ramp up faster and it failed at the last minute. 

Didn’t market the hedge fund. Just had word of mouth spread the word. At the end of 2020 they rebooted onramp as a stand alone firm. 

Major investors like Softbank, Coinbase, & Gemini all investors. 

Sizable fund with great performance and gives them an opportunity to try new things, etc. 

How they came up with and built a platform for onramping financial advisors. 

No way to easily create accounts for clients. Coinbase asked him to build it. 

How May of 2021 was the iPhone market for crypto and they were able to now let anyone create via their system and access it via their existing investment accounts at TD, etc. 

How they are now going to move into DeFi projects with self-custody, but allowing advisors to manage for them. 

Providing EAT - Education, Access, and Tools

We discussed what it is like for advisors to see what is available in crypto and how powerful it can be. 

His thoughts on where we are with regulators and the btc ETF.

How amazing the process was integrating what they offer with a DAO as a product to launch.

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more.

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more.

Today Brad and Joe had special guest Simone Pomposi from Fantom Foundation to discuss what is new, what is coming, and how things are going at Fantom. 

We also covered degen options as usual and much more.  

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.

Guest Info

Name of Guest: Simone Pomposi

Name of Project: Fantom Blockchain

Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/theotherpomp

Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/FantomFDN

Project URL: https://fantom.foundation/

Project/Guest Description: Simone is the CMO for Fantom

Why they are a guest: Fantom is a fast, high-throughput open-source smart contract platform for digital assets and dApps.

## Show Notes

Background:

20 years in advertising

Commercial and art

Phillips auction house

Creative production

Worked at Ferrari

Photographer

What it is like being a CMO of a crypto project. 

Andre Cronje - yearn

Speaking in 2017 at iota, holochain event with Fantom

Involved at beginning as advisor

A few months later her became heavily involved

Core team members with Michael Chen and Chong

Co-authored consensys

DeFi at early stages Andre

Why is Fantom’s community so passionate? 

Born in bear market

People invested and then helped to grow it

Originally  created in Korea

Just a few months after the sale

Consensus mechanism

Gaming is a big focus upcoming for Fantom and they are seeing more and more game devs coming to them. 

How got into crypto:

2013 Co-worker - Mark

Talked about bitcoin

Tech background

Bought on coinbase

Michael Chen CMP

Joined Fantom community early

Meetup in NYC Andre Cronje

How involved is Andre?

Not hard core developing.

Author of the consensys mechanism

Major decision maker

Artium.

Michael Kong CEO

What is powerful about Fantom?

1 second

Use case - Reaper.farm

Auto compounding vaults

How do people fund apps on Fantom

Recruiting developers

Tech vs users

Austin - Community members

FTM alerts

Projects.fantom.network

Lets talk about community management and building.

It can be a great time, but it can be difficult

Loot

Fantom build apps/games

Real world applications

Afghanistan

ERP systems

CBDC talks

Pharmacy meds are counterfeit or not

Check it

Minister of health of afghanistan

Reaper.farm

Spooky

Smooth